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Alien Life Engine

An evolution simulator where every organism that can see thinks with an evolved recurrent brain, and half of that mind is shared with whatever else is nearby.

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Nothing is trained. There is no fitness function, no loss, no reward. Weights are inherited, mutated, and kept or lost depending on whether their owner ate.

Pages

• The Brain — the recurrent architecture, what the senses are, what the actions are, and the parameter count
• The Collective Field — how half a mind is shared, and why it is spatial rather than global
• Hyperparameters — every setting and what it does to the world
• What Randomness Exists — which dice are rolled where, and why movement rolls none

Where to start if you just opened it

Worlds begin with a crowd rather than one ancestor: roughly one founder per 100 grid cells, all of them with a 10% mutation rate, all of them facing random directions. Most of those lineages die. Several founding populations going extinct before one takes hold is the normal case, not a bug — producers choke on their own food litter before anything with eyes evolves to eat them.

Press V to see the collective field. That nebula is thought, and it moves like a circulatory system once a population is large enough to sustain it.

The Chronicle tab writes down what happens as it happens, with real taxonomic names rather than hashes.